HELP SUPPORT THE COMPLETE STEVE CANYON ON TV RESTORATION PROJECT! Buy a DVD NOW!- they are in LIMITED QUANTITIES and MIGHT NOT BE REISSUED! NOTE all collectible Hats now SOLD OUT! (until further notice)...you can also purchase from us on ebay and on Amazon.com! Be sure to leave feedback or write us a review!

There's Doug hisself sporting the latest in "wild blue yonder head gear", and a 1959 trade-ad for our favorite noggin-protector!

Click image to enlarge in new window, and click here to go to the full article at Drex FilesNOTE that Doug's DREX FILES site is gone from the internet, but the text and a few images from the "RETURN OF STEVE CANYON" article can be accessed by clicking HERE.

In a special arrangement with us, Doug has also started running the Steve Canyon comic strip adventure OPERATION EEL ISLAND from 1951 in a nice LARGE format, and (usually) daily (or at least every other day...sharing a spot with his currently running DICK TRACY comic strip serialization from 1964! Neither are to be missed!

Note that Doug features just a whole lot of AMAZING pictures and articles on a whole lot of topics, and is simply MUST READING if you are a fan of Star Trek, science fiction and the space program.

Not to sit on their laurels, Drex Files have also posted a major article called "Hey! Airforce!", a piece about our very own illustrious DVD cover designer JOHANN MITCHELL and her time in the US Air Force in 1962! Don't you just love the covers and disc art she's done for us?

Wow Johann! Way to go...and it's not hard to love this gal in uniform!

Click image to enlarge in new window, and click here to go to the full article at Drex FilesNOTE that Doug's DREX FILES site is gone from the internet, but the text and a few images from the "HEY! AIRFORCE!" article can be accessed by clicking HERE.

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Although we have no programming planned for the San Diego Comic-Con this year I still plan on being there part of the time. You should be able to catch me (at the very least) on Preview Night (Wednesday) and Sunday at or near the National Cartoonists Society booth #1307. The NCS will be selling our hats and dvds until they run out...so be sure to drop by and say hello and rattle your ejection seat handles! We'll be looking for you there.

In other news, work continues on THE COMPLETE STEVE CANYON ON TV VOLUME 3 DVD, due out near the end of this year, specific details will be posted here soon, watch for 'em! Be sure to order our other products to help support us to finish this worthy effort. And don't forget to join us on our FaceBook page and also on our Twitter page for all the latest news about what we are up to!

While we're hard at work on THE COMPLETE STEVE CANYON ON TV VOLUME 3 (due out by Xmas 2009)...here are a few "letters of comment" that have been sent to us since our Volume 2 release:

John!

I cannot thank you enough for the "Steve Canyon" Collection! I haven't seen these since they aired, and you know what? They are terrific! How cool to find out that it wasn't just nostalgia!

Good grief! The hardware on display is awesome.. and the picture is so crisp and clear that the beauty of the technology is breathtaking. There was a sequence in a B-29 cockpit that had my eyes popping out of my head!

Seriously though, you have done a magnificent job. The transfers are amazing. No one has ever seen these shows like this before. It a whole new experience, as during the shows first run, we were all watching it over fishbone\coathangar rooftop antennae! My wife and I are going through them one by one, and I am on to the 2nd disk. I wish that 12 O'Clock High would get this treatment.

This show must have had the complete and total cooperation of the Air Force. What do you know about the background on the making of the show? How did it happen. Who had the magic touch to get the Air Force behind it? I'm dying to know more!

Doug Drexler

California

USA

(Note that Mr. Drexler toils by day as an amazingly talented designing artist on such shows as Battlestar Galactica and most of the recent Star Trek TV series')

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Hi John!

I was delighted to find Volume 2 in my mail when I returned yesterday from a two-week business trip. Guess how I spent my time last evening? You’ve done a wonderful job with Volume 2 and I hope your work can continue through the rest of the episodes.

As a 12 year-old kid, I looked forward to EVERY episode of “Steve Canyon” and was crushed when I discovered it didn’t return in ’59-’60.

My boyhood best friend is a retired USAF colonel and I went to work on him recently. He’s a pilot who has restored 6 aircraft in recent years. I reminded him that he and I used to hook up at each other’s homes to watch “Steve Canyon”. I’m sending him the link to your website.

Warm regards,

Woody (Linwood C. Wiley, Jr.)

New Jersey

USA

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Dear John,

I got my DVDs in Monday. I have finished one disc so far. I am still enjoying the series, and I am glad I read about this project on my friend Tom Floyd's site. At least this treasure of the 50's is being restored and released. I like to thank you and all involved in this project, for all of your work on getting this great series out to us.

For your next project, you can colorize the series. Won't that be fun! LOL!!

Take care,

Lloyd Collins II

Alabama

USA

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My set arrived today, John!

That's super fast delivery to get from California to Florida.

Volume 2 is just as beautiful, if not more so, than Volume 1. Great dvd casing and wonderful artwork on the two discs in this second set. The audio and video is clean and crisp, just like the first volume.

John will probably be able to guess which episode I jumped to first in this set. "The Gift", which was the wonderful Christmas episode from this series. And can you imagine my surprise, while listening to the audio commentary from John Ellis and James Farmer, that I hear my own name mentioned!! My kids and wife just looked over at me with pleasantly shocked expressions and we all just grinned from ear to ear. I do appreciate that, John, and want you to know just how much we appreciated that early Christmas gift last year. This episode will always hold a special place in our hearts thanks to your generosity and kindness. Oh, and the commentary track had plenty of great information, as all of them I'm sure do.

Anyone on the fence with this release need not hesitate. This is a top rate dvd set in all ways. And as with V. 1, an added bonus is the original commercials and sponsor spots found on these discs.

I highly recommend this set!!!

Gary "thanks again John - you're the best, my friend" Osborne

Florida

USA

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Happiness is......Setting down in front of the TV with a full box of Tagalong Girl Scout cookies and my new set of Steve Canyon DVDs!

What a great job you guys have done, John......can't hardly wait to see volume 3.

Congratulations again for all your effort in bringing us these valuable images, so magificiently restored!

Well, now I can only expect for you schedule for Vol.3!

Thanks again.

Yours sincerely,

Flavio Azevedo Estrella

Porto Alegre

BRAZIL

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Dear John,

The package just arrived today, and everything is ok!! This volume 2 is even better than 1. Magnificent!! .. but I have to make a few remarks about “Operation Crash Landing”.. Brazil`s did much to look like the real thing, even back in late 50s! Rio de janeiro, in that time was already a big city, and spanish was never spoken here... all Brazil speaks portuguese... the boy on the jeep, looks like a mexican kid!! But it`s OK!! It`s funny... and Steve Canyon is a true gem!! God bless you, and keep in touch.

See` ya in Steve Canyon Volume 3

Best Regards

Victor Kuster Tavares

Porto Alegre

Brazil

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Dear John: Got my Volume 2 in Kansas on Monday. Am enjoying the heck out of it. Can't wait for Volume 3. All the best and thanks for a GREAT product!

Joe Grasela

Kansas

USA

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Hi John,

I received the DVDs on saturday and started watching them last night, they look great (so far)! The flickering arrows had me alarmed until I realised that was so the broadcaster would no where to place the commercials. I've watched the first two episodes, very much looking forward to episodes directed by Lamont Johnson. I used to house sit for the Johnsons (Toni & Lamont) back in the 1980s when Lamont was working on location. At the time, big Milton Caniff fan that I was, I had no idea he had directed episodes of this wonderful and unnoticed show.

Anyroad, the DVDs have all kicked butt, so thanks for them! I'm still dithering about the cap...

Your pal,

John Dacey

California

USA

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The latest Volume of Steve Canyon arrived here yesterday and its everything that I expected from your wonderful project

Keep up the good work - and here's hoping for the final Volume in the not-too-distant future

Trevor Scott

New South Wales

Australia

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John,

The DVDs are fantastic. We're watching it slowly (only one a week) just to savor it. We are very lucky to have what we have and I'm very grateful. One thing I can't figure out is why I don't remember the show. Maybe it wasn't on up here? I remember some of the commercials from other shows but the show is a blank. It would have been my favorite show!

Rex Dean

California

USA

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John,

I have watched all the episodes on Volume 2 now (without commentary tracks),

and I have to admit, they were great. I was especially surprised by the sea

change from individual missions to Steve becoming the base commander. It

turned into a more traditional TV series, but I was surprised by the

excellence of the writing. I look forward to watching all the episodes

again with commentary tracks.

Hope to see you soon.

Tom Swyden

California

USA

(Tom has written episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess (among others) and is also on the Writer's Guild of America Education Commitee.

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I also want to point out that we have begun posting high quality promos of various Steve Canyon episodes on YouTube to help promote our restoration of the series to a wider audience. Here is the promo for PROJECT UFO which starts off with a brief look at our restoration effort:

Note that this 6 minute clip is a portion of the FULL 19 minute promo (featuring clips from 6 episodes, 3 of which are from our upcoming Volume 3!) which is included as an extra on THE STEVE CANYON SPECIAL EDITION DVD, our first release.

There's more in store (and news galore) from the Ace of Space coming right up, so stay tuned!

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